In the weekend I found out - Don't let the man of the house help in maintaining your siamese fighter.

I'm sure everyone here is well aware I dote (doted being the correct word now) on my Siamese Fighter. I realised in the weekend one of the fish (I think it was the glowlights) was chewing on his tail, so I put him in a small 15L tank until I had upsized the original with the intention of letting his tail grow out and making him healthy again. Sounds good so far right? Just to make him less depressed I put his best friend (the female fighter - Shirley) in and made his temporary new home nice and tidy with plants etc.

Jack got depressed and stressed about moving house - can anyone blame him???? So what happened??? Man of the House decided the heater should go up another degree or two in the hopes it would boost Jacks spirits and didn't realise he had in fact boosted the heater to a whooping 32 degrees.

I no longer have Jack yet Shirley survived. Now we have one man in the dog box, one beautiful fish that is but a memory and one cross yet sad housewife. I figured writing about it would make things easier and all it's done is make me wonder why the hell I got so attached to a fish in the first place.................

Moving on - anyone know where I can obtain a pink male fighter??? And the name Mick keeps coming to mind.............

So sorry to hear about your loss. You must train your family better!

Sorry to hear about Jack's demise. On the bright side, he is no longer depressed.

At least man of the house was only trying to help. Make the most of his guilt and ask for a bigger tank or something :lol:

Guess SO is on "rations" for a while

Huh??

Alan

heheheheheee Caryl - i like the way you think. Man of the house is currently pricing up a 4 footer for me - with stand and all accessories of course.........

He gets a guilt look on his face everytime i look sadly at my empty tank............

You need to train him better, Never touch the fish unless it's an emergency.

i can order you in one, i have had a few in and a few crown tails that are pink.

how old/young was he before he died?

Hi Kim

Jack was only a wee teenager I think - He certainly had some more growing to do. How very exciting - what price am I looking at for a pink one? Keep me up to date and thanks ever so much :-)

i find they only live a year sometimes if your luck 18months from the size you buy them in the shops

i sell my fighters for $13 each and crown tails are round $18-19

sorry to hear about your loss

it's quite funny/werid to see how people treat fish like humans and treat it like a humans died.i'd say that he's alot happier where he is now.